Official presentation of the 2025-2026 Collegium Fellows - 13/10/25 at 2pm

The 18th cohort of the Collegium de Lyon is distinguished by its interdisciplinary richness. The humanities and social sciences are represented by researchers specialising in anthropology, literature, linguistics, history, gender studies, and political science.
The Collegium also demonstrates its commitment to interdisciplinary research by welcoming researchers specialising in cognitive science, geography, biology, computer science, medicine and biochemistry.

Please note that due to Vigipirate's high security alert level, access will only be granted to those who register via this link before Thursday 9 October.

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PROGRAM

Opening

- Nathalie Dompnier, President of the ComUE Université de Lyon Saint-Etienne
 

Presentation of the Institute for Advanced Study

- Vincent Renner, Director of the Collegium de Lyon
 

          - Bahador Bahrami (Cognitive Sciences -  Germany) : Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma in Joint Value-Based Decisions in Humans

          - Rachel Black (Anthropology – United States) : Traditions and transformation of French cuisine in Lyon:  the case of immigrant cooks and chefs

          - Maxime Boivin (Geography - Canada), H2o’Lyon Water Science Fellowship : Large wood in rivers: from dendrochemistry to the perception of wood in rivers, via river restoration

          - Tatiana Calderón Le Joliff (Literature - Chile) : Corpographies in Migration Literature: The Americas (2000-2020) 

          - Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire (Literature - Canada) : Narratives of the Fall: Contemporary Poetics of Ruin

          - John Huelsenbeck (Biology – United States) : Developing Event-Based Models to Understand the Evolution of Language and DNA

          - Laurent Jacques (Computing - Belgium), Inria Fellowship : Novel learning algorithms for imaging sciences: leveraging random dataset summaries for uncertainty quantification and equivariant imaging procedures

          - Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez (Literature - Canada) : Re-Imagining the Spanish Novella: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Fiction by Women (1635-1700)

          - Holly Martinson (Medicine – United States) : Deciphering the Role of Stromal Cells in Sensing and Promoting the Preneoplastic Niche

          - Yoon Mi Oh (Linguistics – South Korea) : Information encoding in natural speech

          - Maria Antonia Paiano (History - Italy) : Religion and the Political Right in France: The Diocese of Lyon and the ‘Reform of the Reform’ Movement During the Episcopate of Monsignor Albert Decourtray (1981-1994)

          - Ela Przybylo (Gender studies – United States) : At The Ends and Edges of Sex : Rethinking Gender and the Normate Bodymind with Asexuality Studies

          - Jaemin Shim (Political science and gender studies - Hong-Kong) : Media Sexism in Politics and Electoral Consequences: A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Legislators in East Asia

          - Carlos Sorgi (Biochimy - Brazil), USP Fellowship : Advances in Multi-Omic Analysis of Extracellular Vesicle Composition by High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry: Implications for the Pathophysiology of Atherosclerosis

          - Blair Sullivan (Computing – United States), Fulbright Fellowship : Bridging Theory and Practice: Advancing the Usability of Parameterized Algorithms for Network Analysis via Twin-Width and Graph Modification

          - René Venegas (Linguistics - Chile) : Towards AI-Enhanced Writing Support for Spanish Technical Reports in Higher Education
 

Discussion/cocktail